Interests:filming/editing/exotic travel. l write reviews of editing software, books, tutorials and Mac based NLE related products for the www.kenstone.net and www.lafcpug.org sites as well as articles for Asian Diver Magazine and wetpixel. I am one of the founding members of the San Diego UnderSea Film Festival

Posted 02 October 2011 - 07:29 AM

Nicely shot, what time of year was this. Personally, I think I would have liked to have seen more diversity of marine life in the video. Just felt that there was too much Manta footage. Using the cartoon effect was pretty effective but a keyframe out of it to the actual footage would work better than a jump cut to another manta.
Steve

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Steve Douglas
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I have worked as an unpaid reviewer for the editing websites since 2002. Most all hardware and software is sent to me free of charge, however, in no way am I obligated to provide either positive or negative evaluations. Any suggestions I make regarding products are a result of my own, completely, personal opinions and experiences with said products.

I understand what you mean about diversity, and length of the sequences: In fact, this video is just a quick edit from a twenty minutes, I removed several complete sequences but didn't alter the ones I kept - This is probably a mistake -. (I wanted to avoid a kind of "quick inventory")

These images were shot in February 2011, on a 12 days cruise (the only thing we really missed was a few whale sharks)